HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut judge has suspended a Hartford attorney for impersonating a fellow lawyer 11 years ago. The Hartford Courant reports ( (link) 1M3rLS6) the judge said Joseph Elder violated the rules of professional conduct by ...(Aug 1, 2015, Meriden Record-Journal)

'It Was A Preventable Accident' Says Lawyer In Flight For Life Crash Lawsuit

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) – Less than a month after a fiery helicopter crash in Summit County, a lawsuit has been filed. On July 3 in Frisco a flight for life helicopter slammed to the ground just seconds after it took off. The pilot, Patrick Mahany ...(Aug 1, 2015, CBS Local)

A Lawyer's Advice For Black Men At Traffic Stops: 'Comply Now, Contest Later'

It's been nearly a year since a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American 18-year-old, in Ferguson, Mo. Since then, more deadly police encounters across the country have prompted anger, activism and reform. Many of those ...(Aug 1, 2015, NPR)

The lawyer for Donald Trump, who created a firestorm after erroneously claiming that there is no legal cause of action for marital rape, reportedly voted for presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Trump advisor and counsel Michael Cohen, who may ...(Aug 1, 2015, The Inquisitr)

Of all the words used to describe a law firm, "cool" probably doesn't come up often. But that's what comes to mind when you walk into the converted garage that houses Iron Horse Motorcycle Lawyers. "You'll never see an office like that," says Kirk ...(Aug 2, 2015, Greenville News)

Louisiana Toddler Loves Local Person Injury Lawyer so Much He Becomes the Boy ...

Col. Connell Archey on Saturday (Aug 1.) became the fifth officer to be appointed military judge of the Louisiana National Guard since the state codified a set of military laws more than 40 years ago. Archey, of Baton Rouge, took the oath of office ...(Aug 2, 2015, NOLA.com)

Famed lawyer says cops abuse power

Don't know Gerry Spence? Lawyer 60-plus years? OK. He probably doesn't know you either. Wyoming country boy. Defended the superfamous. Never lost a criminal case. In the '80s I saw him fight for Imelda, the Philippines' first lady. Longtime President ...(Aug 3, 2015, Page Six)

Lawyer: Witnesses say man shot in back by officer

Several witness accounts differ from the one given by police of a shooting outside a downtown bar early Friday in which a man was killed by an officer, a lawyer for the man's family said Sunday. Phillip Vallejo of Kennedale was celebrating his 30th ...(Aug 3, 2015, Fort Worth Star Telegram)

Lawyer opens a books and antiques store with a law office in back

BRUNSWICK | A new downtown business offers one-stop shopping for used books, antique furniture, framed prints, knickknacks and maybe a little legal advice on the side. Former City Attorney M. Lynn Frey III is the proprietor for the aptly named ...(Aug 3, 2015, Florida Times-Union)

Dylann Roof wants to plead guilty in Charleston case, but his lawyer gags him

Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white man who gunned down nine people inside a Charleston, South Carolina church in cold blood, wants to plead guilty to all the crimes he has been charged with, but his lawyer does not want him to do that—yet. Defence ...(Aug 3, 2015, ChristianToday)

John Paul Knox, lawyer, community leader

John Paul Knox, 87, formerly of Oreland, a lawyer in Montgomery County for many years, died Tuesday, July 21, of cancer at Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge, a retirement community in Charlottesville, Va. Mr. Knox and his wife, Eleanor, had ...(Aug 3, 2015, Philly.com)

Personal Injury Lawyer Stars In Toddler's Birthday Party

A two year old in Louisiana perks up whenever Morris Bart's commercials come on TV. So his parents threw him a Morris Bart birthday party — complete with Bart's face on a cake and a T-shirt. More From Around the Nation. Sports. After 9 Days, Special ...(Aug 3, 2015, NPR)

A former lawyer who left a steady 6-figure job explains what it's like to take ...

A former lawyer who left a steady 6-figure job explains what it's like to take ...(Aug 3, 2015, Business Insider)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state's top lawyer, booked on criminal ...

(Newser) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was this morning booked at a Dallas-area jail on felony charges alleging that he misled investors before becoming the state's top lawyer. Paxton arrived at the Collin County jail today to be processed on two ...(Aug 3, 2015, Newser)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawyer says Paxton will plead not guilty to felony securities fraud charges and request a jury trial. Joe Kendall said in a statement Monday that the 52-year-old Paxton looks forward to the opportunity to defend ...(Aug 3, 2015, Yahoo News)

The Way Bill Cosby's Lawyer Talks About Assault Is Peak Rape Culture

Pressley is media-trained; she's poised and she deftly side-stepped Lamont-Hill's most damning questions. But her (sanitized, well-planned) comments offered chilling insight into the way rape culture works. They also brought into sharp relief our ...(Aug 3, 2015, Huffington Post)

Glens Falls lawyer to lead Adirondack Council

Since 1971, Kafin has developed expertise in the major federal and state environmental laws, was one of the primary authors of the initial set of regulations implementing the NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR), and among the first lawyers to ...(Aug 3, 2015, Glens Falls Post-Star)

Cravath Lawyer Turned Writer Reflects on Career Telling Stories

Around the time Alan Hruska turned 68, having already spent four decades as a trial lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, he decided to retire, or put more accurately — to change careers. On a whim, he had attended Yale Law School in the late 1950s, ...(Aug 3, 2015, Bloomberg Big Law Business)

The Global Lawyer: Saudi Arabia, Iran and 9/11

Victims of September 11, who seek to hold funders of the 2001 terror attacks accountable in court, came to Manhattan federal court in Foley Square on Thursday with serious evidence that Saudi Arabia supported the al Qaeda bombers. U.S. District Judge ...(Aug 3, 2015, The American Lawyer)

Attorney defends Justin Hunter, says he didn't sucker punch anybody

The lawyer for Tennessee Titans receiver Justin Hunter said Monday that his client didn't sucker punch anybody outside a Virginia Beach bar following a massive brawl inside of it over the July Fourth weekend. "I think our evidence will show, and I'm ...(Aug 4, 2015, ESPN)

Town of Princeton Hires Special Lawyer to Conduct Personnel Investigations

Joseph M. Wenzel, a Clifton-based lawyer whose specialty is local government law, including employment issues, was hired for special legal services for personnel investigations as needed during calendar year 2015 at a rate of $150 per hour, not to ...(Aug 4, 2015, Planet Princeton)

Lawyer: Haverhill Officers Were Wrong to Shoot Man

Haverhill — The lawyer representing the mother of a Canterbury, N.H., man who was shot and killed by Haverhill police last month said the officers didn't need to respond with gunfire when the 41-year-old charged at them with a knife. Attorney Peter ...(Aug 4, 2015, Valley News)

India and Pakistan's unlikely anti-pornography crusaders: a lawyer and a teenager

India—and Vaswani—awoke on Monday (Aug. 3) to discover that the Narendra Modi government had blocked 857 porn websites in the country, setting off a wave of outrage. The 43-year-old lawyer from the central Indian city of Indore, however, was basking ...(Aug 4, 2015, Quartz)

Disgraced ex-Assemblyman is asking for yet another lawyer

Disgraced former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. is asking for yet another lawyer in an apparent bid to put off his sentencing next month for corruption. In a handwritten note to Judge Sandra Townes, the disgraced Democrat claimed that he had ...(Aug 4, 2015, New York Post)

Asia Bibi's lawyer blames Pakistani government for failure

The Pakistani government has failed to uphold numerous legal requirements in the case against Asia Bibi, her lawyer has said. Sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010, Bibi has lived on death row ever since. She denies charges levelled at her by former ...(Aug 4, 2015, ChristianToday)

Judge Won't Let Aaron Hernandez's Lawyer Question Tipster

FALL RIVER (AP) — A Massachusetts judge says a lawyer for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez can't question under oath an anonymous tipster who raised concerns about a juror in the murder case. Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh ...(Aug 4, 2015, CBS Local)

Porn is worse than Hitler, claims activist Indian lawyer

India's apparent ban on hundreds of pornographic Web sites has been met largely with befuddlement and despair, but there are some who are reveling in the new restrictions. Media reports pointed in particular to one activist lawyer from the state of ...(Aug 4, 2015, Washington Post)

Mr. Tsimhoni's Lawyer Comes After Mrs. Tsimhoni Activists on Twitter

Just when you thought the Tsimhoni custody battle could not get any nastier, the participants found a way to turn the crazy up to 11. Observer readers will recall the sad and weird case involving the three Tsimhoni children, the Michigan kids who were ...(Aug 4, 2015, Observer)

Staten Island lawyer challenges rival litigant to trial by combat

Richard Luthmann, a Staten Island lawyer being accused in a civil suit of helping his client commit fraud, is taking a page from the Song of Ice and Fire novels and asking to skip the bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo by just resolve the matter with a fight to ...(Aug 4, 2015, Winter Is Coming)

Beijing Extends Detention of Top Rights Lawyer Amid Ongoing Crackdown

Since the crackdown began with a raid on Beijing's Fengrui law firm on July 10, a number of family members of Chinese lawyers have been harassed, placed under surveillance or denied permission to leave the country in recent weeks, on the pretext that ...(Aug 4, 2015, Radio Free Asia)

Judge prevents Aaron Hernandez's lawyer from questioning tipster

Aaron Hernandez's lawyer won't be able to question under oath the person who raised concerns over a juror, according to The Associated Press. On Monday, Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh prevented that step, ruling that if the lawyer wants to question ...(Aug 4, 2015, CBSSports.com)

(CNN) The second American recently accused by the Zimbabwean government of illegally hunting in the African nation wasn't in Zimbabwe when the incident is alleged to have happened, his lawyer said Tuesday. Dr. Jan Seski, a Pittsburgh-area physician, ...(Aug 4, 2015, CNN)

American Bar Association names Atlanta lawyer president-elect

In a speech at an ABA conference in Chicago, Klein called on the profession to mentor younger lawyers and to work to insure access to justice for all. “We're all in this together,” Klein said. “Lawyers, judges, law students. We fight for justice, the ...(Aug 4, 2015, Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Lawyer steps away from Allentown investigation

The lawyer said he didn't want to be a distraction within the solicitor's office while its staff is working on the case, which is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation. Goldman also said his leaving has nothing to do with the FBI ...(Aug 4, 2015, WFMZ Allentown)

Judge: Class lawyer's misconduct 'fatally tainted' Amex deal

Gary Friedman of the Friedman Law Group can now put a price tag on the cost of his horribly misguided decision to share privileged and confidential documents from his antitrust class action against American Express with his old friend Keila Ravelo, a ...(Aug 4, 2015, Reuters Blogs (blog))

'Shrimp Boy' lawyer: Prosecutors went easy on SF Mayor Ed Lee

In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the "Dragon Head" of the Chee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. Investigators say Chow is the leader and the dragonhead of one of the most powerful ...(Aug 4, 2015, SFGate)

Meagan Work in police interview: “Can I ask for a lawyer?”

Now, as her lawyers seek to keep her confessions to law enforcement in those hours out of her trial, they pointed to the footage — played in court Tuesday — as proof that Work was not only denied access to counsel but kept under dire physical ...(Aug 5, 2015, Austin American-Statesman)

Lawyer: I tried to get grand jury to take up Paxton case

Yet Clevenger is the Collin County attorney behind an unusual — and, some would say, legally questionable tactic — that the attorney general's lawyers may raise at any future trial. In two letters back in March, Clevenger directly reached out to ...(Aug 5, 2015, WFAA)

Wells Report lawyer cross-examined Tom Brady on appeal

Ted Wells' law firm was hired by the NFL to produce what NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called "a thorough and independent investigation" into the Patriots alleged deflating of footballs. One of the chief investigators for the Wells Report also ...(Aug 5, 2015, CBSSports.com)